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surface9
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This may seem a bit confusing - it shouldn't.
I have my win2k pro (sp4) system installed onto my ATA C: drive which
happens to be mounted within one of those removable h/d mounting
brackets - after shutdwon I can unkey and remove this h/d from the
system completely. If I boot up wih this h/d unplugged, then all that
win2k sees is the the primary DMA channel (master) is not connected.
I have a brand new SATA drive which I have formatted the same as my C:
drive (FAT32). If I boot up wihout my C: drive, the system tries to
find a bootable disk elsewhere, and, if I could makte this SATA drive
bootable, it would work from it.
So, instead of having to go through and *REINSTALL* each and every
little detail (I have my current C: drive just the way I want it -
takes quite a while!), I would like to somehow make my SATA drive look
just like my C: drive (to the system) so that if I boot up with my C;
drive unplugged, it will go ahead and boot from my SATA drive and it
will behave just like my current C: drive does.
Is that possible? It shoud be (my opinion), but, does anyone know a
straightforward way to make my SATA drive JUST LIKE my current C:
dirve?
I know that in windwos 98SE this can be accomplished very easily with
the XCOPY32 command (from C: to D: using the /E/H/R/K/C/D switches.
But this command only works in windows 98SE - is there something like
that for win2k (and also winxp)?
I have my win2k pro (sp4) system installed onto my ATA C: drive which
happens to be mounted within one of those removable h/d mounting
brackets - after shutdwon I can unkey and remove this h/d from the
system completely. If I boot up wih this h/d unplugged, then all that
win2k sees is the the primary DMA channel (master) is not connected.
I have a brand new SATA drive which I have formatted the same as my C:
drive (FAT32). If I boot up wihout my C: drive, the system tries to
find a bootable disk elsewhere, and, if I could makte this SATA drive
bootable, it would work from it.
So, instead of having to go through and *REINSTALL* each and every
little detail (I have my current C: drive just the way I want it -
takes quite a while!), I would like to somehow make my SATA drive look
just like my C: drive (to the system) so that if I boot up with my C;
drive unplugged, it will go ahead and boot from my SATA drive and it
will behave just like my current C: drive does.
Is that possible? It shoud be (my opinion), but, does anyone know a
straightforward way to make my SATA drive JUST LIKE my current C:
dirve?
I know that in windwos 98SE this can be accomplished very easily with
the XCOPY32 command (from C: to D: using the /E/H/R/K/C/D switches.
But this command only works in windows 98SE - is there something like
that for win2k (and also winxp)?